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A year after the outburst of the “crisis”, we are still at the same point. English-speaking Cameroonians VS French-speaking Cameroonians. English VS French. How is it that we did not moved an inch? It is simply because of a misnomer: The Anglophone Problem. From the beginning, the situation was at the disadvantage of English-speaking Cameroonians.

I recently found myself reading about the Arab spring and trying to compare the last moments before the Tunisia and Egyptian revolution came full circle to the situation Kenya finds itself in today and asking myself what needs to be done differently if they need to achieve their goals. When the Arab spring started, I

Those who love peace must learn to organise effectively as those who love war – Martin Luther King Jr March 25 1967. A lot has been said about the current on goings in Uganda in regard to the Presidential #AgeLimit Debate. For awhile I wondered if my voice was at all important, seeing as we managed

Religion has always been a key aspect of Zimbabwe’s national consciousness. And its points of entry into this national consciousness are many. From the very indigenous African Traditional religion and its uniquely liberatory role in the 1st and 2nd Chimurengas through to orthodox Christianity and its mixed legacy of conservatism and literacy. Not forgetting other

PhotoCredit : BBC Africa In 2016 after attending my first Re:publica, a techie conference in Berlin, I wrote of a need for Africa to have what I called a “collective thinking space” where like-minded actors on the African continent would converge to share ideas and inspire each other. The Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa, 2017 (FIFAfrica17) just

Recently I was in a small village in Benin called Possotome. I went there to meet with the populations to talk about citizen participation. The first question I asked during our first encounter and therefore first working session was “As citizens are you active in your community, are you involved in the development of your

I have been sitting in on the last of the 3 Regional Youth Consultations on Democracy Elections and Governance Trends on the continent hosted by African Union Department of Political Affairs. Now, North Africa is an interesting region. Some of its people don’t think that they are African at all. This is because their culture

We were sitting on the old cushioned chairs in the dormitory reception where the temperamental TV set mounted overhead to one corner of the room was not giving us any news about the election results. It was just before 8 pm on a Sunday night, and I had just arrived back in Bulawayo from Harare,

On June 12, 2017 two voice clips in which a 17-year old, Grade 11 learner from Pietermaritzburg Girls High School refers to her Black classmates as ‘k****rs’ were uploaded on social media. In the clips, she’s heard using the racial slur because her name had been pronounced and spelled incorrectly by another learner. According to reports,

Corruption has become part and parcel of the Kenyans society. Little known public officials become instant celebrities the moment they are linked to corruption scandals. In an article titled “The predictable nature of corruption in Kenya, ” Africa Blogging guest author Brenda Wambui talks about the seven stages corruption suspects go through; the reveal, the outrage,

We reporters in Zambia must start researching, we need to learn about health conditions. These fake stories we write about people "crashlanding" one will be sued and lose the case in court. These old people we find naked suffer from mental problems while others have dementia.

These prices can’t explain how much/ what one can do with that monthly data bundle. For most folks it doesn’t even last a month anyway - forcing them to use very limited internet in the name of saving bundle. See the figures here: kainjasite.wordpress…twitter.com/mynassah…

Eriterians and South Sudanese are fleeing from dictatorship and genocide but are being sent to Rwanda and Uganda as if these are the best countries in Africa that can provide standards that would give hope these refugees. From One dictatorship to another.

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